Gunpowder.



Patented Iviay 31, 1904.

'llESTORl A, OHM).

GUNPQW'ZBER:

SF'ECIEICAEIOH forming part of Letters Patent No. 761x503, dated May 31, 1904.

Application filed January 30; 190%. Serial No. 191,336. (No specimens.)

gredieuts compouui. d in the stated: niiruie oi potash. i'errocyzmid oi potash, twenty parts; of pot 9. thirty owls; yellow prussiute potash, ten parts; sugar, grzninlzited, twenty peri s.

luiahe prepm-uiiw i;compoundenough \Vltll is added to ti i s e er to l) the same, and iii is l oiled until u 50 l' u l dro med in coidwuleiwillhurdeu. 'ih Ct r li9llh ure lZlHzli added mid the mix ure :il until it begins to criuuliie. it their granulated v into line gruius in he usual 111:.111101'. The iiil gredients should he finely powdered before being" mixed and incorporated The powder produced is a blue or white powder of great power, and it may he lired by any ordinary i ercussion-eap. The nitrate oi? potash prerents the fouling or rusting of the gun-barreis midwithtl raid of the ferroeyunid forms a quick and easy blaze, suilieient to ignite the more you er ul chloride of potash. The yellow prussiu ucts as u purifier and drier, while the sugar-supplies the adhesive and curbou.

Vihut 1 claim new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- An explosive powder consisting of nitrate of potash, ferrocymiid of potash, chlorate of potash, yellow prussizite of potash and granulated sugar, in the proportions suhstmitially as speei 'ed. I i

in testimony whereof have signed my name to this upeeiiieziiiou in the presencoof two subscribing witnesses.

llOBlN ALBER'E. H. N i finesaes:

EDWARD llouuim, iriiurrm ADAMS.

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